Austin’s reputation — the Austin you see on those top 10 lists — rests mostly on the downtown area, which is home to about 10,000 residents, and a few select sections of East Austin.... The rest of Austin — and there’s a lot of it — looks like the rest of Texas. It’s sprawling, hot and littered with a mix of new and decaying strip malls, chain restaurants and car lots. It’s where the rest of Austin lives in a city built on segregation and increasingly, on gentrification.read more: